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to land a deal

to land a deal

1 3.4
Successfully get a business agreement or contract
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : cerrar un trato
  • He hopes to land a deal with a new client before the end of the month.
  • land a deal with Atlantic Records

This is the process that you have to go through, and hopefully you get some advice here that can help you actually go and land a deal, OK?

Examples

  • This is the process that you have to go through, and hopefully you get some advice here that can help you actually go and land a deal, OK?

    Evan Carmichael

  • How will the boss react if we don't land a deal or meet our productivity goals?

    Academic text (2002)

  • Promoboxx has landed a deal with Chevy to power its Super Bowl commercials from local dealers.

    Blog text (12)

  • And he has become the first friar to land a deal with a major record label—Universal Music Group.

    Blog text (15)

  • Promoboxx has landed a deal with Chevy to power its Super Bowl commercials from local dealers.

  • Dana Wharf just landed a deal with GoPro showing sperm whale footage for an ad.

Synonyms

to cut a deal
vsto land a deal
  • Informal
94 3.5

Make an agreement after talking, often in business or politics

focuses more on obtaining and securing the agreement outcome
to seal the deal
vsto land a deal
  • Informal
22 4.0

Make an agreement official by accepting its final terms

is about securing the agreement rather than only confirming it
to strike a deal
vsto land a deal
20 3.4

To agree with someone after talking about the details

is about successfully securing the agreement outcome
to finalizing the deal
vsto land a deal
  • US
2 3.5

To complete the steps to make a business agreement official

means successfully obtaining the agreement, not only finishing paperwork
to snag a deal
vsto land a deal
  • Informal
5.2

To get a good price on things like flights or cars

is specifically about securing a business agreement or contract

How Successful

to seal the deal
  • Informal
22 4.0
to land a deal
1 3.4
to miss out
176 3.6

Surface Forms

land a deal infinitive
landed a deal past
landed a deal past participle
landing a deal present participle
lands a deal third person singular

Morphology

land + a + deal

The noun 'deal' keeps its literal meaning (a business agreement), but 'land' is used metaphorically here to mean 'to obtain' or 'secure' rather than its literal sense of striking or arriving. This figurative extension is partially inferable from context but not fully predictable from the literal definitions alone, so a B1 learner who only knows the basic senses might only be able to guess the meaning with some difficulty.

Etymology

Land a deal comes from the picture of catching something big. People who fish would land a large catch by bringing it to the shore, so today land a deal means to successfully 'get' an agreement.